Malcolm Wiener Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series

FALL 2009 ■ MONDAYS, 12:00-1:45 PM Buffet lunch at noon. Presentations begin at 12:15 p.m.

FALL SEMINAR LOCATION: CGIS S-020 (BELFER CASE STUDY ROOM) Center for Government and International Studies, South Bldg (concourse level), 1730 Cambridge Street

Sep 14 CGIS BERNARD E. HARCOURT, Law and Political Science, University of Chicago S020 Racial Profiling: What’s the Problem?

Sep 21 CGIS VALERIE A. RAMEY, Economics, University of California, San Diego S020 The Rug Rat Race

Sep 28 CGIS KATHERINE S. NEWMAN, Sociology, Princeton University S020 The Accordion Family: Inequality and the Changing Composition of Households

Oct 5 CGIS RICHARD THOMPSON FORD, Stanford Law School S020 Rights Gone Wrong: How Legal Entitlements Undermine Social Justice and Social Harmony

Oct 12 N/A COLUMBUS DAY HOLIDAY

Oct 19 CGIS SHELDON H. DANZIGER, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan S020 Changing Poverty, Changing Policies

Oct 26 CGIS DAVID NEUMARK, Economics, University of California, Irvine S020 Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Nov 2 CGIS JYTTE KLAUSEN, Politics, Brandeis University S020 Europe’s Muslims and the Contemporary Political Imagination

Nov 9 CGIS DANIEL S. HAMERMESH, Economics, University of Texas, Austin S020 Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives and Evaluation

Nov 16 CGIS MARGARET WEIR, Sociology and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley S020 Reconceptualizing the Problem of Metropolitan Poverty

Nov 23 CGIS ENRICO MORETTI, Economics, University of California, Berkeley S020 Real Wage Inequality

Nov 30 CGIS JOSHUA ANGRIST, Economics, MIT S020 Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston’s Charters and Pilots

Dec 7 CGIS DIANE E. DAVIS, Political Sociology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT S020 Social or Spatial Policy? The Politics of Zero Tolerance Policing in Mexico City

Sponsored by the Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy and by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. (version 08/21/2009)